Download All Census Tracts for a State

Hey Doug, 

Let's talk about this.  The ACS tables Summary files are a way to generate this data.

https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/data/summary-file.html

They have the standard summary levels (summary level 140 is State-County-Census Tract)

It is a trivial programming task to loop through all the tables on the ACS FTP site, extract the geographies for a specific table, and save the output.

I'd be happy to walk you through it.  Send me an email

Adam

If you have access to a Python environment, this is easy to do programatically. First

pip install censusdis

and then you can run code like the following:

import censusdis.data as ced
from censusdis.datasets import ACS5
from censusdis import states

# The variable I want to download.
VARIABLE_MEDIAN_INCOME = "B19013_001E"

# This is the call to download the data we want:
df_co_tracts = ced.download(
    # Data set and vintage.
    dataset=ACS5,
    vintage=2022,
    
    # The variables to download. Adding 'NAME' can
    # be useful for debugging and sanity checking
    # the results.
    download_variables=['NAME', VARIABLE_MEDIAN_INCOME],
    
    # Geographies we want data for: all tracts in all
    # counties in Colorado
    state=states.CO,
    county='*',
    tract='*'
)

This will get the data you want into a pandas data frame. From there you can save it to a file, analyze it, or whatever else you like. Choose a different data set, vintage, and/or variables as needed for your application.

For more details, see github.com/.../censusdis

Hi all,

When I go to advanced search in data.census.gov, I do see the option to select all Census tracts in a state, such as for Arizona or Florida. I took a screenshot below. Can you describe your steps where you do not see this option?

And, just like that it's back. 

Exactly the box I was looking for and hoping to see.

But, it did disappear on me for a time.